Much like your credit card company alerts you if your purchase patterns look like Nebraska-Nebraska-Nebraska-Nairobi, Google throws up a prominent warning that your account was accessed from somewhere outside your normal travel patterns.

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While we think it's awesome they've expanded the suspicious login warning beyond just Gmail, it would be more awesome if any suspicious activity on a Google Account would sound the alarm regardless of which service you logged into—not just Gmail and the Dashboard—since not everyone manages their Google universe through the Dashboard. Check out the link below for additional information or if you haven't played around with Google Dashboard check out our previous review of Dashboard's features.